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- Title
Das Gegenteil von gut ist gut gemeint: Wie ein Weltmenschenrechtsgerichtshof die Menschenrechte schwächt.
- Authors
Speyer, Johanna
- Abstract
States are responsible for most human rights violations, yet, the international human rights regime also singles them out as the main protectors of individual rights. To correct this flaw, human rights activists, lawyers and academics have proposed a World Court of Human Rights. The present heterarchical world order has indeed created opportunities for such international institutions, however I argue that a world court risks weakening human rights rather than strengthening them. With its authoritative judgements, a world court would foreclose the legitimate contestation of norm applicability, thus forcing reluctant states to radicalize their contestation by attacking the very justification of the norm. This dynamic is apparent in the conflict between the United Kingdom and the European Court of Human Rights over prisoners' right to vote. The article concludes that international institutions beyond the state need to be inclusive and open to contestation.
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB), 2018, Vol 25, Issue 2, p6
- ISSN
0946-7165
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5771/0946-7165-2018-2-6